Improvement in gun-stocks



1.0. THOMPSON.

Gun-Stock.

No. 213,307. Patented Mar. 18,1879..

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JOHN C. THOMPSON, OF NEVIT HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

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Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 213,307, dated March 18, 1879; application filed f september 11, 187e. Y

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN O. THOMPSON, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gun-Stocks, of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates to gun-stocks which are provided with elastic cushions to break the force of the recoil; and it consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination hereinafter set forth and claimed.

Figure l is a side view of abreech of a gun. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a view of a sheet-metal strip attached to the breechgrand Fig. 4is a view of a portion ofthe breech-strap, as it is called.

In Fig. 1 the breech of a gun-stock is represented as cut into two parts, A and B, with a part, C, interposed between the parts. The part B is provided with two steady-pins, a, which fit into corresponding holes in the part A, as shown in Fig. 2. Between these parts A and B is interposed the soft-rubber partlC, through which holes are made, through which the steady-pins a pass. The exterior of the soft-rubber part C is made to conform to the exterior of the breech, where the section` is made. Into the holes in the piece A cylindrical softrubber pieces m are inserted, as shown in Fig. 2.

The breechstrap D is fitted to the end of the breech in the usual way, and at the front end of the part B of the stock its ends assume the forni shown in Fig. 4, the straight parts passing into the rectangular slots w, Fig. 2, in i the part A. These slots are made deepest at their back ends, to allow the converging ends of the breechstrap to enter the same, the ends of the breech-strap holding the parts A andB together by pressure on the bottom of the slots a'. These slots are covered by the sheet-metal piece shown in Fig. 3.

Various changes may be made without de parting from the spirit of my invention. For example, steel springs maybe substituted for the soft-rubber pieces.

The parts of my gun-stock being thus constructed and arranged, the interposed elastic material C relieves .the shoulder from the re coil of the gun. I

I am aware that it is not new to insert elastic cushions between the stock ot a gun and its butt-plate.

Having described my invention, wh at I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Batent, isl The combination, with parts A and B, steadying-pins a., and interposed elastic part C, of butt-plate D and sockets .r w, said buttplate and sockets being constructed and arranged to hold said parts A and B together, and said steadying pins being provided with elastic cushions m.

Witnesses GEORGE TERRY, WM. F. HoPsoN. 

